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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the names of the flies that were used in studying genetics?
(a) Drosophilia.
(b) Musca.
(c) Anopheles.
(d) Diptera.

2. The step-by-step evolution of Barbara's interpretation could be followed from her annual reports she wrote for who?
(a) The Rockefeller Foundation.
(b) The National Society of Sciences.
(c) The University of Missouri.
(d) The Carnegie Institution of Washington.

3. Bacterial chromosomes contain little, if any what?
(a) Carbon.
(b) Chromatin.
(c) Protein.
(d) Plasma membrane.

4. In what year was the First Oxford Chromosome Conference held?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1952.

5. While at the University of Missouri, Barbara was given little encouragement and even another woman was promoted to the rank of associate professor of zoology. What was the woman's name?
(a) Mary Jane Guthrie.
(b) Harriet Guthrie.
(c) Mary Jane Creighton.
(d) Harriet Creighton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term, dissociation mean?

2. What high school did Barbara attend?

3. In Hanson's informal notes concerning Barbara, he claims that she weighed approximately how many pounds?

4. The Cold Spring Harbor Symposium of 1951 was on what?

5. Where are chromosomes found?

(see the answer key)

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